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Media center just decides to pop up whenever it feels like it, almost always when I turn on my laptop or bring it out of sleep, and not just once, multiple times, maybe up to 10 times.

Not only will it do it when I turn the laptop on, but even periodically throughout the work day - seems to be completely random. So I Googled the issue (several times) and found a few solutions that are not working for me.

I went into Defender and removed Media Center from the Startup Programs, then I went to Services and disabled the following: